Hi James.
> This box w/Slack8.0/2.4.18; running AOK with an Atapi ZIP250
> internal, as /dev/sda4, as long as I insmod ide-scsi.o..
> (That file also installs sd_mod.o )..
You're doing this wrong. I have the Atapi Zip100 internal. It
does not need the ide-scsi.co. Just
Hi Hal.
>>> This box w/Slack8.0/2.4.18; running AOK with an Atapi ZIP250
>>> internal, as /dev/sda4, as long as I insmod ide-scsi.o..
>>> (That file also installs sd_mod.o )..
>> You're doing this wrong. I have the Atapi Zip100 internal. It
>> does not need the ide-scsi.co. Just set it up l
Hi Christopher.
> I'm trying to run the most simple Linux modules and I get the
> following error on saying:
>
> /sbin/insmod hello.o
>
> hello.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.9-9
> while this kernel is version 2.4.18-14.
>
> I also tried:
>
> gcc -c hello.c -I /usr/src
Hi Chris.
> I know, it's a bit off topic, but, well, the monitor on my
> Linux box (web server, yada yada...) sucks ass, and needs
> replacing. The way I see it, an x-server for my windows box
> would probably be cheaper, and allow me to keep using the
> development tools on the Linux box eas
Hi VH.
> I want to run Linux on rather old PC. The PC is Pentium MMX 166
> with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard Disk, motherboard
> is Intel 430 VX.
>
> I tried set up ASP Linux, but it hangs up during installation of
> packages (on ASP forum I was told that this distributive should
Hi Ray.
> Now 500 x 10 = 5000 usec, or 1/200 seconds. But the loop
> actually takes 10 seconds to iterate. This implies that
> usleep() has a minimum delay of 10/500 seconds, or 20
> msec, built into it (at least on my test system).
The standard PC BIOS sets up the hardware timer with a tick
Hi Stephen.
> Over the years, I have used Linux on a dozen different computers
> and have never run into this problem before. I've just installed
> Slackware 7.1 on a Compaq 400 (MMX) with S3 ViRGE video card.
> Everything is working OK (including the XFree 3.3.6 S3V server)
> except that whe
Hi James, Alan.
Alan: Question at the end of this email which I'd appreciate your
guidance with. It relates to what is discussed earlier herein.
>> Presumably you're using a recent enough version of Linux to be
>> able to mount by volume label rather than by partition name?
>> If so, sim
Hi James.
Presumably you're using a recent enough version of Linux to be able to
mount by volume label rather than by partition name? If so, simply use
tune2fs to set a unique volume label for each partition on your USB hard
drive and mount using that.
To do this, replace the FIRST entry on the r
Hi Steven.
>> Put Red Hat 9 CD 1 in your favourite CD drive and mount it.
>> Assuming you've mounted it as /mnt/cdrom do the following...
>>
>> rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/iptables-*
>>
>> ...and it will install iptables for you. You can then unmount
>> the CD and put it bac
Hi there.
We're talking about a Red Hat 7.3 system here, but the question is
probably equally relevant both to earlier Red Hat systems and to
other distributions as well. We are also NOT talking about X-Windows
but about the virtual text consoles.
When one is booting into Linux, one can specify
Hi Robert.
> Hey out there. This is really a Dos/Windows question, but I'm trying
> to fix a problem in windows using Linux.
We all get to do that on occasion...
> Here is the deal. My son trashed the windows 98 installation on our
> home PC. So I formatted the Windows partition and started ove
Hi Haines.
> I'd like to have my system clock automatically corrected through an
> online connection that remains always up. I gather that xntpd is a
> commonly used daemon to do that for me.
xntpd is one of several commonly used daemons for doing that. Another
commonly used daemon is called ntp
Hi Steven.
>> Another option would be for your script to drop
>> the relevant commands into the keyboard buffer
> How is this done?
All I know is that there are programs that do just that.
I wish I knew how they did it, but I don't 8-((
Best wishes from Riley.
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Hi Venkat.
> I have a bash script which modifies some environment variables and
> does some other housekeeping things. But problem is that when script
> finishes running, new values of environment variables are no longer
> visible in parent shell. So what should I do so that these new
> values ar
Hi Peter.
>>> Did a programmer change something that one has to edit now
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network a file I did not even know it existed
>>> or did I miss something when installing RH7.1?
>> I would presume that for some reason, you provided the wrong value on
>> the relevant pre-iinstall scre
Hi Ray.
>> Whats the use of stripping object files of their symbols.
>> Symbols reflect the functions in an object file, right?
> Stripping makes the files smaller, which matters in some
> cases. The symbols are valuable in debugging problems but
> are not needed simply to execute the object cod
Originally to: All
Hi Peter.
Here's the relevant headers of your email as it came to me...
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Hi Peter.
Here's the relevant headers this time...
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Hi Peter.
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Hi there.
Is there anybody here who knows how to configure MySQL for use both with
a webpage and with applications running on computers elsewhere on the
Internet?
If so, would you mind giving me a one-on-one session to configure it
here, and also to set up a web page to look up entries in it and
Hi Colin.
> New to this list. Could someone outline the possibilities please.
> Problem as below :-
>
> I have a 17Gb HDD. First 5 GB dedicated to Redhat 6.1 and runs an
> ax25 system for a DX cluster and ax25 node system.
>
> Want to try Redhat 7.2 - Tried a second install by creating a new
> 5G
Hi Peter.
I've reformatted and reparagraphed your query to make it readable. Not
sure what happenned when you posted it, but it arrived here full of tab
characters...
> When I recently upgraded from RH7.1 to RH7.3 I got total keyboard
> lock-up with some programs. In order to go on working I ha
Hi Peter.
>> I made that switch with RH7.1 some time ago with no problems.
>> 7.1 runs on XFree86-4.0.3-5 and 7.3 on XFree-4.2.0-8.
> This move by Red Hat may be optimistic. Even Debian unstable (Sid)
> still runs XFree86 4.1.0-17.
That is certainly possible. What version does RH 7.2 use?
XFre
Hi.
> I tried changing an existing dos partition into a ext2 one using
> mkfs.ext2 and mk2efs.
>> # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda7
> But the partition type is still FAT32 when I use fdisk (in Linux).
> I am not able to mount it as a FAT partition though.
Actually, the "Windows partition type" is still FA
Hi Peter.
>>> When I recently upgraded to RH7.3 I got total keyboard locks when
>>> trying to run xscreensaver, tuxracer and chromium and may be others,
>>> necessitating dirty reboot by the reset botton. >
>>>
>>> I, therefore, conclude that the problem is somewhere whithin with
>>> RH7.3 and po
network using a LinkSys router with a
>>> Windows XP box and this AMD PC connected peer to peer and another
>>> ethernet connection to use with my laptop.
>> What do you mean by "peer to peer"? In this context, the term
>> usually describes two hosts that are connect
Hi Enrique.
> I'm a newbie with Linux and I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.3 in my
> AMD K6 box (128 mb RAM, 233 mhz, 6 gb hard drive) to be the sole OS
> for that box.
There should be no problems with that setup - I recently installed Red
Hat 7.3 on an AMD K6 box with a 266 MHz cpu but otherwise
Hi Kevin.
> I am writing a Kernel module that needs to be both 2.2 and 2.4
> compatible. My module receives hardware interrupts, and I have a
> need to schedule a task from the interrupt routine. I have been
> reading up on Bottom Halves and have a question:
>
> I would like the same task to be s
Hi Anshu.
> unfortunately i dont think WinXP recognises FAT32 system. it requires
> NTFS and i can't create NTFS type partition using dos's fdisk!
All I know is, it installed as an UPGRADE to my Win98SE system that was
installed in a FAT32 partition, so the installer at least understands
FAT32 p
Hi Haines.
The other points have all been dealt with by others in other emails,
so I'll just clear the one remaining item for you...
> There is a difference between UP and SMP. I understand what the
> latter means, and the former is a single processor, but what does
> "UP" mean literally?
Here'
Hi.
>>> btw I used Partition Magic from WinXP to partition the disc as I
>>> dont know how to work around using fdisk in Linux.
In the process, you probably caused this problem, and my advice would be
to scrap PartitionMagic and redo your system completely. Here's the
procedure I use to set up a
Hi Haines.
> A thread is running on comp.os.linux regarding a problem of system
> hang (no keyboard; no mouse; system clock stops) perhaps every other
> week or so.
>
> Three people so far have contributed to this recent thread which has
> just begun, and the common element seems to be one of the
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